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Definition of Butterballs
1. butterball [n] - See also: butterball
Literary usage of Butterballs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography, Including Selections from His by William Healey Dall (1915)
"The good ducks have gone pretty much, as I have been out several times, seeing
nothing but butterballs, Golden Eyes, and Sheldrakes. ..."
2. Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns: Being a History and Guide to by William J. Park & Co, Park, Wm. J., & co., pub, Wm. J. & Co Park (1877)
"... whistlers and butterballs, bring something in the markets of the large cities,
and hence they must be killed and sold for the little they bring. ..."
3. The Cookbook for Men Whose Wives Don't Cook by Christopher Hamilton (2006)
"butterballs don't need basting. butterballs rock. During the cooking phase, if
you notice the skin on top of the turkey begin to crisp up too much, ..."
4. Outing (1893)
"I did not have long to wait, for rounding a bend I almost paddled over a dozen "
butterballs." Some took wing at once and I stopped a couple, ..."
5. Table Service by Lucy Grace Allen (1915)
"Making butterballs, salads, and sandwiches. Preparation of fruit. Preparation of
celery, radishes, olives, pickles, jellies, relishes, and hors-d'oeuvres. ..."
6. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1911)
"Many other kinds of ducks are found in market during the fall and winter.
Examples: Widgeon, Mallard, Lake Erie Teal. Black Ducks, and butterballs. ..."
7. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1899)
"2 Ruddy ducks . . .16 Mergansers . . .11 butterballs . . . 6 Total . .359 Besides
these we had 118 Wilson snipe, 68 Drummond snipe and plover, ..."
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